YEREVAN. – “Are you not concerned that even if [opposition bloc Armenian National Congress] ANC does not dissolve, it will weaken its positions?” To this question posed by 168 Zham daily, ANC member Armenian National Movement Party Board member Hovhannes Igityan responded as follows:    

“I believe the Congress, as a unit, cannot work the same way as before. ANC was gathered around [First President Levon] Ter-Petrosyan and aimed to nominate him [as presidential candidate]. ANC is not those seven people that sit in the parliament. The Congress is Levon Ter-Petrosyan, even in the case of [its] parliamentary faction.      

I find that the time has come when the [political] parties in the Congress should attempt to get active. They need to find their political line, the layer of the society. They should become independent, not in the sense that Ter-Petrosyan is no longer in politics, but rather they should strengthen and not wait for when Ter-Petrosyan would help them,” 168 Zham quotes.